Chapter 6: Elisia the Terrifying!
Babysitting is an absolute nightmare!
"Not fair, Colonel, I got dragged into this, too?" Havok whined, while at a stop sign. "What is Maes thinking, making me do this anyway?" Roy said. "Doesn't he realize I have more important things to worry about right now?" "Like yourself?" Havok asked. "Exactly!" Roy said. "Right now I am absolute priority!" "Well don't get high and mighty or anything, Colonel." Havok said. "That's the point!" Roy said, "I want to get higher and mightier! How could you be missing that?" Havok sighed. Though he was talking to the Colonel, he felt like he was talking to the "Chief", Edward.
The car stopped in front of a nice looking, narrow house in Central's suburbia.
"There you are!" Maes yelled from the porch, "Hurry up! I just kissed my little Elisia goodbye!" He turned around to find Elisia standing behind him. "What, you want another kissy from Daddy? Oohhkay" Maes said, picking her up and smooching her all over her face. "Now daddy's friends Mr. Roy and Mr. Jean are going to take care of you while I go pick up Mommy, okay?" "Okay!" Elisia piped up. "That's my bundle of joy." He said.
He ran across the lawn to meet up with Roy and Havok, who had just gotten out of the car. "You take good care of my little girl, or you're in for it." He threatened, and then ran off to the car in a hurry. "Bye bye, Elisia!" He called as he drove away. His voice seemed to linger in the air.
Jean and Roy walked up to the doorway where Elisia was standing. They both knew that Elisia was really shy, so they decided to be careful and speak gently.
"Hey there, Elisia-" they both began to say in unison, but as soon as the words left their mouths she ran into the house.
"I forgot Elisia was so shy." Said Havok. The two followed her into the house and looked around. Where did she go?
"Elisia?" Roy looked around. They were in a small living room with a door across from the front one. Havok was looking around and picking up ridiculous things like coasters and stuff looking for her. "Havok, you look in the rooms over there and I'll look over here." Roy had opened the door to reveal a small hallway with two doors on either side. "Gotcha, Sir." Havok said, and they split up.
Havok opened the door to find a small room, filled with papers and things scattered incoherently over a wooden desk… obviously Maes' home office. Havok picked up a couple of papers pretending like he was looking for the girl, but really he was looking for a way out of it.
On the desk under some papers was a small, box-shaped device. It had a small square of glass in the front, along with a few large dials and switches and two big antennae on top. "What the hell is this thing?" Havok wondered. Curious, he turned one of the switches and turned the first dial. Suddenly a gray fuzz appeared on the screen, accompanied by an irritating crackling noise. "Is this?" Havok continued to examine it. He gasped. "This is one of those experimental picture devices the military was testing! But why does Maes have one? Did he bribe one of the higher ups for it? This is so not fair!" With longing he adjusted one of the dials until –to Havok's utter delight- an image began to appear on the screen. "What's this?" Havok said excitedly, as the forms of two people became clearer.
Oh, darling, how could you betray me? A woman's voice said. I'm sorry honey, a deep voice replied, but my true love is Charline, not you. I can't keep on living this lie any more. Forgive me! With a pang of regret the fuzzy man on the glass turned and ran away. Martin! The woman screamed. Nooooo!
"No way!" Havok said. "They're playing Miss Lovely romance films on this thing!" Excited he snuggled his way into Maes' desk chair and continued to watch. He found a huge tin of peanuts under his desk (some kind of unwanted Christmas gift) and began stuffing them into his face like popcorn.
"Elisia?" Roy called. As much as he didn't enjoy it, Elisia was still his best friend's kid, and he didn't want to be the one responsible for something happening to her. He went back in the hallway. "Elisia?" He said again.
He peered into the doorway of his second room. Aha! He saw a bit of movement in the corner. Maybe I should be discreet, he thought. She seemed really nervous.
"Elisia? It's me, Mr.Roy. Why don't you come out Elisia?" Roy called. "Come on. I'm your babysitter, remember? So you have to do what I say." Roy climbed around a bunch of random boxes and things… the room was dimly lit and they were obviously using it for storage. "Elisia?" Roy poked his head around a broken chair. "Elisia?"
Pwuk. "Ehh!" Roy said confused. He turned the corner to find Elisia and she had pecked him on the cheek! "Eeep!" She ran deeper into the random cardboard and stuff chaos.
What the? Roy thought to himself. Wait… He looked at himself in a cracked mirror balanced on a box nearby him. A round faced young boy stared back at him. Oh my god! Maes' daughter must have some kind of weird crush on me! ….Eww… he thought. Okay, so that's really creepy. But what the hell am I supposed to do? It's Maes' daughter. Do I explain to her I'm an adult or what? Roy continued to stare into the dimness where Elisia was hidden thinking about it. But what if she liked me before then? No, she never acted this way before… then, there's no way she could recognize we're the same person either. Shoot, this is confusing.
Charline, my love, I've found you. Please, my dear, come to me! Why are you turning away?
Havok was merrily consuming the peanuts. Don't look at me Martin, don't look at me! You could never love me again! Charline screamed. Nonsense my darling, Martin said, You are my only love.
You could never love anyone so hideous as me Martin! Please, leave me!
No, I won't Charline!
Charline turned around to reveal a deformed looking monster face. "Ewww." Havok said, "When is Miss Lovely coming back? Forget about stupid ugly Charline, I want my Miss Lovely!"
"Elisia?" Roy called into the dimness. Suddenly, he changed face. His gentle and cute expression turned into an angry and demanding pout. "ELISIA!" He screamed. "STOP HIDING AND GO TO YOUR ROOM!" Faster than a bullet Elisia darted out of the room, up the stairs, and into the safety of her bed covers.
Roy smiled. He was an adult again. That was short-lived, he thought. Hahaha, I wonder what Maes will think when he finds out I was his daughter's first crush? He thought about it just a second more. Then again, maybe he shouldn't know.
"Hey, Jean? Jean?" Roy called into the hall. He hadn't heard Jean since he went to investigate the first room. "Jean?" he opened the door.
"Miss Lovely! No! Martin, you bd! How could you hurt my Miss Lovely?" Havok had his knees propped up over the arms of the chair he was sitting on, peanuts spilled over his lap, and a handkerchief in his mouth. "JEAN!" Roy yelled. The chair flew over backwards.
"Clean it up, Jean." Roy said leaving the room.
Roy and Jean left the house later in the evening rather relieved they had to go. Or, at least, Roy was. "It's not fair!" Havok called out into the street. "I want a picture device! A movie thingy! A telewatchamacallit!" Roy sighed. "You mean a television?" Havok looked at Roy. "Like I can remember a fancy word like that! They should just call them PDs for picture device, MT for movie thingy, and TV for televasomething!" Roy's mind had already wandered off, though.
He looked towards the ground and smiled weakly. Some how, having the ground close to your face is always pretty comforting, but it bothered him that it did and he wanted it to stop. He could feel in his gut that this wasn't right. There was a huge part of him that was missing. And deep inside, he really, really, wanted it.
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ZOMGWTHGTGBBQTTYL… Elisia has a crush on Roy and Jean on Miss Lovely. I made her up for fanfic purposes obviously, and that's her name because I couldn't figure out what kind of name someone back then would have. Because I'm dumb. Next is some Royai luff and EdWin angst. Because… for me to put up with Edwin there has to be angst. :P So yeah… hmm, yeah, TVs are so new they don't even have a name for them yet… Mmm, I want there to be Havok x Katherine Elle sometime… why does that seem so non-existant? Sob story. Oh well. TTYL! Review!